A national employer has undertaken the "monumental" task of moving from annual to quarterly performance reviews, to stay on top of its attrition risks.
Bystander interventions can play a critical role in preventing workplace s-xual harassment, but employers first need to shift their culture, an Australian researcher says.
Two workers have failed to convince the Fair Work Commission they were engaged under sham contracts, after their company separately launched legal action as a service provider.
An employee was demoted and then constructively dismissed after complaining about her manager's repeated enquiries into her romantic relationships, a court has ruled in adverse action proceedings.
Clearly aligning goals with values boosts performance, lifts culture, and drives a healthy relationship between leaders and employees, an executive coach says.
The Fair Work Commission has 'hinted' at a new approach to determining employment contract disputes, in an important ruling analysing whether a demotion was a dismissal, a lawyer says.
The pandemic has prompted a more "heartfelt" leadership approach, but some obstacles exist to managing "equal doses" of responsibility and innovation, a leadership specialist says.
An employer has won interim restraint orders against three ex-employees, with a court accepting that despite any evidence of breaches, its concerns were justified.
A BHP employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that a contract worker, upon hearing about a colleague's s-xual harassment claim, immediately fabricated another against him.
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